Stories of Inventors : The Adventures of Inventors and Engineers [electronic resource] /
Russell Doubleday
- Project Gutenberg, 2004
- Project Gutenberg 11368 .
How Guglielmo Marconi telegraphs without wires -- Santos-Dumont and his air-ship -- How a fast train is run -- How automobiles work -- The fastest steamboats -- The life-savers and their apparatus -- Moving pictures: some strange subjects and how they were taken -- Bridge builders and some of their achievements -- Submarines in war and peace -- Long-distance telephony: what happens when you talk into a telephone receiver -- A machine that thinks: a type-setting machine that makes mathematical calculations -- How heat produces cold: artificial ice-making.